Liya Petrova

Liya Petrova first came to international attention when she won the 2016 Carl Nielsen Competition. Two years later she recorded the Nielsen concerto and Prokofiev’s First with the Odense Symphony Orchestra and Kristiina Poska to great acclaim.

She has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras, including the Orchestre de Paris, the Brussels, Luxembourg, Monte-Carlo, Netherlands Radio, Radio France, Royal, Strasbourg and Tokyo Philharmonic orchestras and the Antwerp, Bournemouth, China National, Flanders and Odense Symphony orchestras, Weimar Staatskapelle, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de Bordeaux and Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire.

She has worked with conductors such as Elim Chan, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Aziz Shokhakimov, Tan Dun, Pierre Bleuse, Duncan Ward, Martyn Brabbins, Kristiina Poska, Riccardo Minasi, Michael Sanderling, Kirill Karabits, Diego Fasolis, Michael Schønwandt, Philippe Herreweghe, Krzysztof Penderecki, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Alexander Liebreich, Xian Zhang, Ariane Matiakh, Christopher Warren-Green, Michel Tabachnik and Jesús López Cobos.

Last August she made her debut at the BBC Proms, playing Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending with tonight’s conductor and orchestra.

She regularly plays chamber music with Alexandre Kantorow and has performed with many other leading musicians, including Beatrice Rana, Emmanuel Pahud, Pablo Ferrández, Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angellich, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, James Ehnes, Frank Braley, Yuja Wang, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Bruno Philippe, Aurélien Pascal and Gautier Capuçon.

The latest addition to her award-winning discography combines Korngold’s Violin Concerto and Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata.

She was born in Bulgaria into a family of musicians and studied with Augustin Dumay at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Élisabeth in Brussels, Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hans Eisler Berlin and Renaud Capuçon at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne.

She founded La Musikfest Parisienne in 2020 during the first lockdown. The festival quickly gained acclaim and now takes place at the Philharmonie de Paris, under her joint artistic direction with Alexandre Kantorow.

Liya Petrova plays the ‘Rovelli’ violin, made in 1742 by Guarneri del Gesù, generously loaned by private sponsors, as well as the ‘Consolo’, made in 1733 by Guarneri del Gesù, on loan from the Bulgarian State.

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Daeth Liya Petrova i sylw rhyngwladol am y tro cyntaf pan enillodd Gystadleuaeth Carl Nielsen 2016. Ddwy flynedd yn ddiweddarach recordiodd goncerto Nielsen a choncerto cyntaf Prokofiev gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni Odense a Kristiina Poska a chael canmoliaeth fawr.

Mae hi wedi ymddangos fel unawdydd gyda cherddorfeydd blaenllaw, gan gynnwys Orchestre de Paris, cerddorfeydd Ffilharmonig Brwsel, Lwcsembwrg, Monte-Carlo, Radio Ffrainc, Radio’r Iseldiroedd, Strasbwrg, Tokyo a’r Gerddorfa Ffilharmonig Frenhinol, yn ogystal â cherddorfeydd Symffoni Antwerp, Bournemouth, Fflandrys, Odense, a Cherddorfa Symffoni Genedlaethol Tsieina, Weimar Staatskapelle, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de Bordeaux ac Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire.

Mae hi wedi gweithio gydag arweinwyr fel Elim Chan, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Aziz Shokhakimov, Tan Dun, Pierre Bleuse, Duncan Ward, Martyn Brabbins, Kristiina Poska, Riccardo Minasi, Michael Sanderling, Kirill Karabits, Diego Fasolis, Michael Schønwandt, Philippe Herreweghe, Krzysztof Penderecki, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Alexander Liebreich, Xian Zhang, Ariane Matiakh, Christopher Warren-Green, Michel Tabachnik a Jesús López Cobos.

Fis Awst diwethaf gwnaeth ei hymddangosiad cyntaf yn y BBC Proms, gan chwarae The Lark Ascending Vaughan Williams gydag arweinydd a cherddorfa ein cyngerdd ni heno.

Mae’n chwarae cerddoriaeth siambr yn rheolaidd gydag Alexandre Kantorow ac wedi perfformio gyda llawer o gerddorion blaenllaw eraill, gan gynnwys Beatrice Rana, Emmanuel Pahud, Pablo Ferrández, Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angellich, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, James Ehnes, Frank Braley, Yuja Wang, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Bruno Philippe, Aurélien Pascal a Gautier Capuçon.

Mae hi wedi ennill gwobrau am ei recordiadau, ac mae’r diweddaraf ohonynt yn cyfuno Concerto Korngold i’r Ffidil a Sonata Richard Strauss i’r Ffidil.

Cafodd ei geni ym Mwlgaria i deulu o gerddorion ac astudiodd gydag Augustin Dumay yn Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth ym Mrwsel, gydag Antje Weithaas yn yr Hochschule für Musik Hans Eisler Berlin ac efo Renaud Capuçon yn yr Haute Ecole de Musique yn Lausanne.

Sefydlodd La Musikfest Parisienne yn 2020 yn ystod y cyfnod clo cyntaf. Enillodd yr ŵyl ganmoliaeth yn gyflym ac erbyn hyn caiff ei chynnal yn y Philharmonie de Paris, dan ei chyfarwyddyd artistig hi ar y cyd ag Alexandre Kantorow.

Mae Liya Petrova yn chwarae’r ffidil ‘Rovelli’, a wnaed ym 1742 gan Guarneri del Gesù, ar fenthyciad hael gan noddwyr preifat, yn ogystal â’r ‘Consolo’, a wnaed ym 1733 gan Guarneri del Gesù, ar fenthyg gan Wladwriaeth Bwlgaria.